There is no provable metric that shows doing something for the sake of it worsen's the product, especially since you yourself also say its shallow and thus, doesnt really matter.

Yes, I agree.

Gonna start at the end and say that oh well if you're looking at this as so simple, because every issue on earth is more complicated than it seems. This will be the only part of my comment that is snarky.

Now for the rest, and I dont really get what the US population has to do with anything, because my post was about pandering. No matter the protag, people are being pandered to. I'm saying that people dont care that pandering has begun, they care that more groups other than them are now being pandered to. And even with a majority white population, you're still looking at millions of people of colour, and even more women (isnt the US' population around half women?) and we shouldnt say that these people shouldnt get pandered to as well. Not to mention, and this was gonna go at the end but I put it up here, people still complain about new characters that are created as black. People complain when new games come out with black people and women, they complain when comics have female or muslim superheros, they complain when a cartoon has gay characters even if they are all original.

For the part you have a big problem with, I dont think I'm hypocritical at all, because the two situations simply arent equal. Because I'm looking at the wider CONTEXT. In a world where everyone was always equal from the beginning of time, all instances of changing the race or gender of a character would be equally a problem. In this world, where media was 99% white and male for hundreds of years due to racial and gender biases deeply entrenched in society, things get a bit more nuanced. Making a white protagonist in a movie black will change one movie out of 6 coming out that week. making one black protagonist white will remove probably one of 3 films with a black protag coming out that year. You cant ignore the context of these situations and the wider world we are in, the history, or any of that. Because the reason for so many people being white wasnt just a natural part of society, it was because of certain biases that entrenched that as the default.

It's the same reason Black Panther became political, because a major superhero movie with that budget, that cast, and a black director being so successful is a major deal in terms of representation, and until it becomes commonplace, people will make a big deal about it.

You either don't get it or you're misrepresenting it on purpose. It has been explained to you repeatedly. People do not want politically motivated people who don't appreciate the IP, changing existing an IP to suit their agenda. 

Also, Ghostbusters sucked because it was filled with too much improv and wasnt funny, the female thing is 100% inqonsecuential and even diving into the debate is just getting duped by Sony who manufactured it so people would care about the movie.

Only going to address the part that we've both acknowledged as the only part I care about (I'm on lunch and I'm not wasting the whole thing debating dumb shit):

Changing a fictional character in an established IP into something else for the sake of diversity is a perversion of art. Period. If you want more black superheroes, literally nothing is stopping you from making them. Comic fans (see: actual comic fans, not MCU fans and "OMG im such a nerd" fans) generally don't like it when the main canon of their favorite IPs is altered for no good reason.

If you can't make Miles Morales white, you can't make Peter Parker black. If you can't make Batwoman straight, you can't make Bobby Drake gay. Just because a race/gender/sexuality/identity is over-represented doesn't give everyone agency to change then into whatever they want while claiming the reverse is against the rules.

Except the part where most people knew it was going to be trash from the get-go, meaning the improv isn't what liked it.

I mean im replying to your whole reply, hence the first part, just calling them as I see them. And since you more or less reiterated your point, all we can really do is agree to disagree since I cant really say much more tha reiterating mine. One thing I will say though is that since you're zooming in on comic books a bit, most of the time, movies are entirely new canons where being as accurate as possible doesnt realy matter, making Johnny Storm Black matters as much as changing Thanos' motivations, which both happened because it is a different medium where things are gonna be altered.

People knew it looked bad because the trailer wasnt funny, and the trailer wasnt funny because the humour is bad, and the humour is bad because improv.

If you're fine living in cognitive dissonance, that's your prerogative.

The fact that the humor was shit played a role, yeah. The fact that they essentially gender swapped everything also made a dent on popularity. If you want to deny that, feel free, but it won't change the fact that taking a male-dominated IP and making every protag an unattractive woman will result in backlash (even if it is funny).

Oh that's a shame, I thought this was gonna end on amicable terms, but you decided to squeeze out an insult right at the end for no reason. Disappointing tbh.

Also that unnatractive kinda came out of nowhere, that was wierd. And entirely subjective. Either way the fact it wasnt funny played the biggest role. It's why nobody cares that Domino in Deadpool 2 is black. The movie is good and everyone loves her character.

Well, when you're going to pretend that something is okay going one direction but not the other in regards to unchanging aspects of a person's being such as race or gender, that's prejudice. I refuse to find common ground that actively gives advantage to someone concerning traits they can't control.

People were upset that she was black. There's always backlash when that happens, but media doesn't cover it unless they can pin a specific person as racist or bigoted. I was personally pissed off about it originally. But now that the movie has proven itself, most have forgotten about it (except left-leaning establishments who want to constantly remind you how diverse something is). 

Seems like you didn't read the topic... and also if no one cares then why is it being made? And personal attacks for what reason? Are you going to accuse me of being advocate?